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History to 1877: British Colonial Settlement Chart

Comparing Colonies

Please use your careful reading of chapters 3 & 4 and the Colonial America Video to complete the chart below including as
much detail as possible. You may also use additional sources but you MUST put any direct quotations from any source in
quotation marks and include a reference (ex. Textbook, pg. 89 or https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/thirteen
colonies).

Please be detailed.
Simply fill in the boxes with the details and then attach it to the assignment in Blackboard.

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Southern Colonies Middle Colonies Northern Colonies

Names and dates of Virginia (1607), Maryland New York (1625), Delaware Massachusetts (1629),
Settlement of Colonies (1632), North and South (1638), New Jersey (1664), Connecticut (1635), Rhode
Carolina (1663) Georgia (1732) Pennsylvania (1637) Island(1636), New
Hampshire (1623)

Motivations for Better Agriculture Gained profit from trade, more Religious Freedom
Settlement land
Types of settlers Planters, English aristocrats, Quakers, Dutch, French, English, Puritan farmers
(families, single men, small farmers, slaves Germans (Diverse)
indentured servants,
etc…)

Economic life: Cash crops such as: tobacco, Mining, trading, farming grains, Small farms, merchants ,
primary crops, indigo and rice. livestock, cash crops, based off craftsmen, boat building,
trading networks commercial economy whaling, lumber, fish

Impact of climate on Warmest climate, broad coastal Has a longer growing season, Had a long winter which left
health and economy plain, rich farmland, forest and fertile soil, wide variety of little time for farming. Also
fish crops had poor soil.

Religion: religious Has a casual religious outlook, Protestants, quakers, catholics, Puritans who were very strict
groups, role in daily life Church of England, Catholic and jews and superstitious.

Type of leadership: Controlled by the governor. Had Had a mixture of leadership Could voice their own
proprietary, royal or royal colonies. from the town and government opinions. Looks as though
corporate colonies, local they were self-governed.
structures of
government, etc…

Interesting details Black people had more freedom There were no schooling Religion was strong in their
in these colonies. requirements in these colonies. daily life.